SBIR/STTR Research Award
FPGA-Based Adaptive Digital Beamforming for Missile Defense Radars
Award amount
$99,966Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- VIRTUAL EM INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2007-02-28
- Contract end date
- 2007-08-28
- UEI
- XVVMZSCBJJS6
- Solicitation number
- 2006.3
- Topic code
- MDA06-033
Research abstract
An FPGA-based solution is proposed for Adaptive Digital Beamforming for missle defense radars. The FPGA implementation speeds up real-time computations and allows for remote retuning of the algorithm after launch. Support Vector Machines (SVMs) ensures reliable performance in adverse conditions. The proposed solution is as an enabling technology for legacy beamforming hardware.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Reconfigurable Conformal Antennas for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) utilizing Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)
- RF Channel Sounder for Automatic Acquisition of the Wireless Environment.
- A Massively Parallel Scalable Processor for Order of Magnitude Increase in Acceleration of Photonic Simulations
- Remote Monitoring of Cardiopulmonary and Neurological Signals
- Low-Cost Radar Antenna with Electronic Elevation Scan
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Efficient Adaptive Beamforming for Missile Defense Radars
- Very Wide Bandwidth Photonic Adaptive Digital Beamformer
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2025). Reported award amounts total $7,801,861. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce